Archive for the 'The Suburbs' Category
The buzz about Black Friday Ads and Sales has grown from being just an inside retail industry term a few years ago to a regularly used term that ends up on posters and fliers sent to the public weeks before the day after Thanksgiving actually arrives. The change may have to do with the recession and how badly retailers [...]
November 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Illinois, Lombard, Naperville, Pop Culture, Shopping in Chicago, The Suburbs, This Weekend in Chicago | 2 Comments
Even though we are still feeling the affect of the recession, Chicago open houses are on my calendar this weekend. My husband and I have decided that its time to find a house to settle down in and move from our small 2 br townhouse. We spend a lot of evenings searching through hundreds of real [...]
October 21st, 2009 | Posted in Business Local, Chicago News, Downers Grove, Elmhurst, Evanston, Illinois, Lemont, Lombard, Naperville, Oak Park, Real Estate Condos, Schaumburg, Skokie, The Suburbs | No Comments
Have you been thinking of some home improvement projects but are afraid to spend the money in the current economy? Tax Credits for Energy Efficiency Products can help. It is scary not knowing if all our jobs will be around in 6 months, but if you have some savings to use for these projects and really need new [...]
September 28th, 2009 | Posted in Business Local, Downers Grove, Elmhurst, Evanston, Hyde Park, Illinois, Lakeview, Lemont, Lincoln Park, Lombard, Naperville, Oak Park, Pilsen, Schaumburg, Skokie, The Suburbs, Uptown, Wrigleyville | No Comments
The 2009 Chicago Bears have started the preseason games already and it isn’t long until the regular Football season is in full swing. Whether you are a casual fan or a dedicated fantasy football die hard who also attends home games at Soldier Field, you will want to know where to find the scheduled games on TV [...]
August 16th, 2009 | Posted in Chicago News, Chicago events, Illinois, Pop Culture, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions, Sports, The Suburbs, This Weekend in Chicago | 4 Comments
It is Fall TV Season Premiertime again in Chicago. Yet few of the listings I see on the internet are in local Chicago time zone time. So, I have taken the eastern standard time zone listings and converted them below into the new fall season schedules for Channels ABC 7, NBC 5, CBS 2 and [...]
August 10th, 2009 | Posted in Business Local, Chicago Loop, Downers Grove, Elmhurst, Evanston, Gold Coast Chicago, Hyde Park, Illinois, Lakeview, Lemont, Lincoln Park, Lombard, Mount Prospect, Naperville, Oak Park, Pilsen, Pop Culture, Schaumburg, Skokie, The Suburbs, This Weekend in Chicago, Uptown, Wrigleyville | No Comments